Ken Erickson

Former ERS Staff

Briefly

While at ERS, Kenneth Erickson was an economist in the Farm and Rural Business Branch at ERS. His research interests included the financial performance of the farm household and business sectors, as well as natural resources economics.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, 1968, Economics and Chemistry, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.

Master of Science, August 1969, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Doctor of Philosophy, May 1978, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Nehring, R.F., J. Gillespie, A.L. Katchova, C. Hallahan, J.M. Harris, and K.W. Erickson. 2015. “What’s Driving U.S. Broiler Farm Profitability?” The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 18:59-78, special issue A.

Nehring, R.F., J. Gillespie, C. Hallahan, J.M. Harris, and K.W. Erickson. 2014. "What is driving economic and financial success of US cow-calf operations?" Agricultural Finance Review 74(3):311-325, Fall. 

Mishra, A.K., J.M. Harris, K.W. Erickson, C. Hallahan, and J.D. Detre. 2012. “Drivers of agricultural profitability in the USA: An application of the Du Pont expansion method,” Agricultural Finance Review 72(3):345-340.

Salois, M.J., C.B. Moss, and K.W. Erickson. 2011. “Farm Income, Population, and Farmland Prices: A Relative Information Approach,” European Review of Agricultural Economics 39(2):289-307.

Blank, S.C., K.W. Erickson, R.F. Nehring, and C.B. Hallahan. 2009. “Agricultural Profits and Farm Household Wealth: A Farm-level Analysis using Repeated Cross Sections,” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 41(1):207-225.

Mishra, A.K., C.B. Moss, and K.W. Erickson. 2009. “Regional Differences in Agricultural Profitability, Government Payments, and Farmland Values: Implications of the DuPont Expansion,” Agricultural Finance Review 69(1):49–66.

Mishra, A.K., C.B. Moss, and K.W. Erickson. 2008. “The Role of Credit Constraints and Government Subsidies in Farmland Valuation in the U.S.: An Options Pricing Model Approach,” Empirical Economics 34(2):285-297.

Mishra, A.K., C.B. Moss, and K.W. Erickson. 2007. “Changes in the Distribution of Farm Wealth in the United States,” Agricultural Finance Review 67(1):119-134.

Gutierrez, L., J. Westerlund, and K.W. Erickson. 2007. “Farmland Prices, Structural Breaks, and Panel Data,” European Review of Agricultural Economics 34(2):161-179.

Moss, C.B., A.K. Mishra, and K.W. Erickson. 2007. “Next Year on the U.S. Farmland Market: An Informational Approach,” Applied Economics 39(5):581-585. 

Mishra, A.K., C.B. Moss, and K.W. Erickson. 2006. “Farm Wealth Inequality Within and Across Regions in the United States,” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 35(2):251-264.

Moss, C.B., A.K. Mishra, and K.W. Erickson. 2006. “Rates of return on U.S. farm investments, 1940-2003: a comparison of imputed returns versus residual income approaches,” Agricultural Finance Review 66(1):91-107.

Blank, S.C., K.W. Erickson, and C.B. Moss. 2005. “Profit Patterns across American Agriculture,” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 30(2):205-230.

Blank, S.C., K.W. Erickson, C.B. Moss, and R.F. Nehring. 2004. “Agricultural Profits and Farm Household Wealth,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86(5):1299-1307.

Erickson, K.W., C.B. Moss, and A.K. Mishra. 2004. “Rates of Return in the Farm and Non-Farm Sectors: How Do They Compare?” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 36(3):789-795.

Mishra, A.K., C.B. Moss, and K.W. Erickson. 2004. “Valuing Farmland with Multiple Quasi-Fixed Inputs,” Applied Economics 36(15):1669-1675.

Weldon, R.N., C.B. Moss, and K.W. Erickson. 1993. “The Distribution of Farm Wealth in the United States,” Agricultural Finance Review 53:100-109.

Johnson, J., M. Morehart, and K.W. Erickson. 1987. “The Financial Condition of the Agricultural Sector,” Agricultural Finance Review 47:1-18, special issue.

Book Chapters

Livingston, M., K.W. Erickson, and A.K. Mishra. 2010. “Standard and Bayesian Random Coefficient Model Estimation of US Corn-Soybean Farm Risk Attitudes” in The Economic Impact of Public Support to Agriculture: An International Perspective, in the series Studies in Productivity and Efficiency, V.E. Ball, R. Fanfani, and L. Gutierrez, eds., 7:329-343. New York, NY: Springer Publishing.

Erickson, K.W., A.K. Mishra, and C.B. Moss. 2003. “Cash Rents, Imputed Returns and the Valuation of Farmland,” Government Policy and Farmland Markets: The Maintenance of Farmer Wealth, C.B. Moss, and A. Schmitz, eds., pp. 223-35. Ames, IA: Iowa State Press.

ERS Publications

McElroy, R., R. Strickland, J. Ryan, C. McGath, R. Green, K.W. Erickson, and W. McBride. 2003. Agricultural Income and Finance Outlook, AIS-81, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, November.

Erickson, K.W. 1993. “A Sources and Uses of Funds Account for the U.S. Farm Sector,” Agricultural Income and Finance: Situation and Outlook Report, AFO-49, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, May.

Erickson, K.W., J. Kubica, D. Hacklander, C. Barnard, J. Ryan, H. Devlin, and S. Chance. 1993. U.S. and State Farm Sector Financial Ratios, 1960-91, SB-857, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, June.

Erickson, K.W., J. Kubica, D. Hacklander, C. Barnard, J. Ryan, and H. Devlin. 1991. Farm Sector Balance Sheet, Including Operator Households, 1960-89, and Excluding Operator Households, 1974-89: by Sales Class, SB-831, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, November.

Erickson, K.W. 1988. “Rates of Return on Farm Assets: A Comparison of Alternative Profitability Measures,” Agricultural Income and Finance: Situation and Outlook Report, AFO-29, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, May.